Here are the top 10 Festivals and/or events in Iowa:)
University of Okoboji Winter Games January Okoboji, Iowa
The University of Okoboji is a imaginary school created to fund fun events like the annual Winter Games.
Held over a weekend each January, the Winter Games feature broomball (a form of ice hockey without the skates), miniature golf on ice, softball, snowmobile races, flag football, freeze your behind bike rides, snow shoe hikes, ice bowling, arm wrestling, polar bear swims and other fun winter activities.
For more information visit their website: www.vacationokoboji.com ‘50s in February February
Clear Lake, Iowa
This annual festival celebrates rock ‘n’ roll – and memories – at the historic Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper performed their last concert. The plane crash site is located just outside of town on a farm. This is a must see.
Please visit: www.clearlakeiowa.com/fifties Tulip Time Festival May
Pella, Iowa
Tulip Time is held the first Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in May. The festival celebrates Pella's Dutch Heritage with parades, stage performances, a Dutch market, and quilt and flower shows.
Streets are scrubbed for twice-daily parades complete with Dutch dancers in authentic costumes in 3 afternoon and 3 lighted evening parades. If you love flowers, this is the perfect festival for you.
For information visit: http://www.pellatuliptime.com/ Glenn Miller Festival June
Clarinda, Iowa
On the second weekend in June, visitors and entertainers from around the world meet in Clarinda, Iowa to celebrate the music and memory of Alton Glenn Miller, American band leader, composer and arranger who disappeared while directing the Glenn Miller AAF Band during World War II.
If you have a love for music visit: www.glennmiller.org Des Moines Arts Festival June
Des Moines, Iowa
The Des Moines Arts Festival, is a top-ranked downtown festival with a field of national artists and continuous live entertainment.
Features include 175 professional artists, emerging Iowa artists, a Student's Vision K - 12 Art Exhibition, Interrobang Film Festival, over 25 family and adult art activities, performing arts stage,great food booths, live music, street theatre, sculpture garden, and fireworks
Learn more at: www.desmoinesartsfestival.org RAGBRAI July
across Iowa
Held in July, the Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa is an annual, seven-day, 500-mile bicycle ride across the state. It is is the oldest and largest touring bicycle ride in the world. It always passes though quaint towns.
Each year is a new route.
For more information please click here: www.ragbrai.org Iowa State Fair August
Des Moines, Iowa
Featured in the New York Times’ "1000 Places to See Before You Die" as one of the world's must-see events, and named the #2 choice for summer fun in America by USA Weekend, the Iowa State Fair annually attracts more than a million fun-lovers from around the world.
Special features include one of the world's largest livestock shows, the country's biggest state fair foods department (approx. 900 classes), the state's largest art show, hundreds of competitive events and wacky contests, and over 600 exhibitors and concessionaires selling teriffic treats, and 160 acres of campgrounds.
Please follow this link: www.iowastatefair.org Knoxville Nationals August
Knoxville, Iowa
Starting in 1961 as a two-day event, the Knoxville Nationals has grown into the country’s largest sprint car event attracting more than 30,000 fans.
Sprint cars are high-powered race cars designed specifically for short oval or circular dirt or paved tracks.
Ready, Set, Go to: www.knoxvilleraceway.com Madison County Covered Bridge Festival October
Winterset, Iowa
The Madison County Covered Bridge Festival has been a honored tradition in Madison County, Iowa since 1970. Each year on the second full weekend in October, county residents gather under the brilliant colors of autumn to celebrate their historic covered bridges.
The festival features a wide variety of food, antique and craft vendors, nonstop music and entertainment, artisans demonstrating the old-fashioned ways, qulit show, car show, an antique vehicle parade, and guided bus tours of the covered bridges.
For information visit: http://www.madisoncounty.com/bridge_fest.html National Farm Toy Show November
Dyersville, Iowa
The best place to buy, sell and trade in the farm toy capital of the world.
This show was started 1978 by Claire and Cathy Scheibe, publishers of the popular Toy Farmer Magazine.
Today, the show has become an annual attraction drawing more than15,000 visitors each year.
For more information visit: www.toyfarmer.com
Here are the top 10 Festivals and/or events in Iowa:)
University of Okoboji Winter Games January Okoboji, IowaThe University of Okoboji is a imaginary school created to fund fun events like the annual Winter Games.
Held over a weekend each January, the Winter Games feature broomball (a form of ice hockey without the skates), miniature golf on ice, softball, snowmobile races, flag football, freeze your behind bike rides, snow shoe hikes, ice bowling, arm wrestling, polar bear swims and other fun winter activities.
For more information visit their website: www.vacationokoboji.com
‘50s in February
February
Clear Lake, Iowa
This annual festival celebrates rock ‘n’ roll – and memories – at the historic Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper performed their last concert. The plane crash site is located just outside of town on a farm. This is a must see.
Please visit: www.clearlakeiowa.com/fifties
Tulip Time Festival
May
Pella, Iowa
Tulip Time is held the first Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in May. The festival celebrates Pella's Dutch Heritage with parades, stage performances, a Dutch market, and quilt and flower shows.
Streets are scrubbed for twice-daily parades complete with Dutch dancers in authentic costumes in 3 afternoon and 3 lighted evening parades. If you love flowers, this is the perfect festival for you.
For information visit: http://www.pellatuliptime.com/
Glenn Miller Festival
June
Clarinda, Iowa
On the second weekend in June, visitors and entertainers from around the world meet in Clarinda, Iowa to celebrate the music and memory of Alton Glenn Miller, American band leader, composer and arranger who disappeared while directing the Glenn Miller AAF Band during World War II.
If you have a love for music visit: www.glennmiller.org
Des Moines Arts Festival
June
Des Moines, Iowa
The Des Moines Arts Festival, is a top-ranked downtown festival with a field of national artists and continuous live entertainment.
Features include 175 professional artists, emerging Iowa artists, a Student's Vision K - 12 Art Exhibition, Interrobang Film Festival, over 25 family and adult art activities, performing arts stage,great food booths, live music, street theatre, sculpture garden, and fireworks
Learn more at: www.desmoinesartsfestival.org
RAGBRAI
July
across Iowa
Held in July, the Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa is an annual, seven-day, 500-mile bicycle ride across the state. It is is the oldest and largest touring bicycle ride in the world. It always passes though quaint towns.
Each year is a new route.
For more information please click here: www.ragbrai.org
Iowa State Fair
August
Des Moines, Iowa
Featured in the New York Times’ "1000 Places to See Before You Die" as one of the world's must-see events, and named the #2 choice for summer fun in America by USA Weekend, the Iowa State Fair annually attracts more than a million fun-lovers from around the world.
Special features include one of the world's largest livestock shows, the country's biggest state fair foods department (approx. 900 classes), the state's largest art show, hundreds of competitive events and wacky contests, and over 600 exhibitors and concessionaires selling teriffic treats, and 160 acres of campgrounds.
Please follow this link: www.iowastatefair.org
Knoxville Nationals
August
Knoxville, Iowa
Starting in 1961 as a two-day event, the Knoxville Nationals has grown into the country’s largest sprint car event attracting more than 30,000 fans.
Sprint cars are high-powered race cars designed specifically for short oval or circular dirt or paved tracks.
Ready, Set, Go to: www.knoxvilleraceway.com
Madison County Covered Bridge Festival
October
Winterset, Iowa
The Madison County Covered Bridge Festival has been a honored tradition in Madison County, Iowa since 1970. Each year on the second full weekend in October, county residents gather under the brilliant colors of autumn to celebrate their historic covered bridges.
The festival features a wide variety of food, antique and craft vendors, nonstop music and entertainment, artisans demonstrating the old-fashioned ways, qulit show, car show, an antique vehicle parade, and guided bus tours of the covered bridges.
For information visit: http://www.madisoncounty.com/bridge_fest.html
National Farm Toy Show
November
Dyersville, Iowa
The best place to buy, sell and trade in the farm toy capital of the world.
This show was started 1978 by Claire and Cathy Scheibe, publishers of the popular Toy Farmer Magazine.
Today, the show has become an annual attraction drawing more than15,000 visitors each year.
For more information visit: www.toyfarmer.com
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